'Rated PG....for a smoking caterpiller' -- no, seriously

The Motion Picture Association of America, the trade group that puts content ratings on movie released by the studios and distributors who are its members, has recently updated its slow and kludgy web site and come up with this new version.

The MPAA is also the place where movie distributors register the official titles of their films, so you can determine that "Seven" is not, technically, "Se7en," and that the correct punctuation is "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace."

The new site is still a little thick-headed (you can't copy and paste the text in your results, nor can you bookmark a specific result page), but it looks nicer than the old one, that's for sure. And if you play with it a little while, you can amuse yourself with phrases like the one on the title of this blog entry, which comes from the MPAA's explanation of why Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" got a PG.